PRESIDENCY AND PARLIAMENT AGREE ON REVIEW OF SHAREHOLDERS RIGHTS DIRECTIVE: LIMITED IMPROVEMENTS FOR SHAREHOLDERS
On 9 December 2016 the EU presidency and the EU Parliament agreed on the final version of the new Shareholders Rights Directive (SRD). BETTER FINANCE welcomes the completion of the ...
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Launch of EuroVote 2016: Boosting Individual Shareholder Rights
A revamped platform facilitating proxy voting now comprises over 1500 European companies. The financial crisis of 2008 revealed significant deficiencies in corporate governance, partly due to a lack of shareholder ...
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Iberdrola sentenced for trying to silence its small shareholders
At last year’s Annual General Assembly of Iberdrola, Adicae - one of BETTER FINANCE’s Spanish member organisations - denounced the behaviour of the company’s Board of Directors with regard to ...
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Calling on all VW Investors
The German investor association DSW, a member organisation of BETTER FINANCE, is examining the possibility of legal proceedings in Germany on the grounds that VW violated its duty to immediately ...
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A Capital Markets Union without a single market for EU-wide shareholder engagement
BETTER FINANCE's press release on the Commission’s proposal for the review of the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) is available here ...
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European shareholders considering legal proceedings against Volkswagen
Representing VW shareholders, DSW, a member organization of BETTER FINANCE, is examining the possibility of legal proceedings on the grounds that VW violated its duty to immediately disclose all information ...
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European Parliament once again ignores individual shareholders rights
The new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive is to be voted tomorrow 8 July. As it stands the proposal grossly ignores all the modest amendments called for by European individual shareholder ...
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An early blow to the CMU initiative?
BETTER FINANCE's press release on the plenary vote of the new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive, as amended by the Parliament’s JURI committee, on June 10 is available here ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the EC consultation on the review of Prospectus Directive
BETTER FINANCE published its response to the European Commission Consultation on the review of the Prospectus Directive ...
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New EU legislation on shareholders rights: Many European shareholders will still not be able to vote whilst others will still have to pay to vote
The European Commission’s review of the shareholders rights directive is a good step forward, but, if not amended and improved upon by the European Parliament, will fail to fix the ...
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